Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2022 - Part 2

[Bastyy]

Saints are going to continue trading and drafting like s**t only for Ross to get sacked for not delivering the right results

Poor Rossy

 

[FreoRicci]

Unfinished business for the industry’s most loyal fans.
Sure Ross. Sure they are

 

[FreoRicci]

Ross & Clarkson are both going to bring misery to their new clubs surely? Game has moved past them IMO.

Clarkson has been actively educating and attending overseas’ sports. He’s a smart guy in that sense.
Ross? Not sure. He’s going to drill St Kilda. Just don’t think he has the list. Brad Hill will be happy

 

[Purple Suit]

Saints already scored less than Freo last season. I don’t think we have to worry about that trend changing.

 

[Big Animal]

So Jason Horne-Francis unfollowed North on his Insta and follows Port (obviously). He still follows Freo, loyal kid.

Not surprising. Freo socials could be offering a subscription service that most would pay they are that entertaining.

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

I suppose there is a chance Ross now has NFI, but I think there is a much bigger chance he is way better than Ratten. Saints odds on to be our middle 6 double up now as well.

Thought Ratts never really got a chance at Carlton but he's had enough time at St Kilda.

Short sighted by them to extend when they did. No one was going to steal him away and they fell in a heap late. List is better than they performed.

Lyon got too comfy late with us, and that was on us for making an equally short sighted error in extendibg when we did, for as long as we did, but Lyon was high caliber enough for us to err in trying to stave off competition.

He'll have a fair bit to prove, and Saints just need to make sure they keep him to task and get some strong people around him, we ended up with waaaaaay too many meek yes men around him late in the piece.

 

[se17enteen]

Only a matter of time. . .

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[freocuz]

I wish Ross well and I truly hope he wins a flag at St Kilda. Just not before us.


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[Sturty2Hurty]

Hahahah remember when he said this on Twitter and we proceeded to finish 16th on the ladder. Good times

You don’t think Ross returning to St Kilda isn’t enough of a wild ride?

 

[Docker82]

Pending a review, there will be three this year.

I did say over twelve months.

So basically saying Lyon and Scott will probably fail. There's less evidence Clarkson will, although imo he looked close to done in his last year at Hawthorn.

 

[poshman]

Thought Lyon was positive about Freo in his few references to his time here and the players past and present.

Saints will be better this year. I thought they should have won at least two more this year. They do that and they are talked about very differently.

 

[freo1]

I think Ross will get the Saints into the finals next year. Don't think they will be serious challengers with their current list, but i'm a Ross fan. He will get them up and about. Their best this year showed they could be very competitive.

 

[holy diver]

It’s Rossco time

Mothers, lock up your pregnant daughters...

 

[WaywardSonSon]

Wow, there were really no other viable, and perhaps, stronger candidates for the position? What a joke of an organisation St Kilda are. You've got to laugh!

 

[King Tenz]

They actually hired him without even looking at other candidates... blokes been cooked since early 2015. Then you add the off field harassment stuff and the fact he hasn't done any coaching for 3 years.

Weird club.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Ross is still a very good coach, much better than most outsiders give him credit for and he’ll give the Saints some relevance again.

But list management is hardly his area of expertise and the Saints have a total mess of a list, not enough talent to contend for anything but enough half decent plodders to avoid bottoming out completely. So not sure what he’ll actually achieve there.

 

[Stinky Lomax]

He’ll make them relevant because of who he is, but unless he changes big time in his people management, players, coaches & staff they won’t get near a flag.
Personally I hope it’s a monumental failure & we can continue to laugh at them.

 

[DeanS]

It will end in tears. Just a matter of when.

 

[holybishop]

It will end in tears. Just a matter of when.

The tears of breaking a Grand Final drought yes

 

[BStaff17]

Ross & Clarkson are both going to bring misery to their new clubs surely? Game has moved past them IMO.

I don't think so.

Ross would be refreshed.

He can clearly coach.

3 years away from the furnace would have given him time to reflect away from the game. And what can he do better.

He already spoke today about needing to get better and bringing everyone alongside with him not just the players but coaching staff.

 

[Ge3ks]

Genuinely happy for Ross. Hope he gets the Saints into 8th spot ahead of Carlton. Ha.

 

[Belnakor]

It will end in tears. Just a matter of when.

when was the last time a coach retired on his own terms

 

[manpurple]

It will end in tears. Just a matter of when.

They'll be mine if StK wins a GF before us because of him.

 

[holy diver]

Only a matter of time. . .

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[Belnakor]

Lyon got too comfy late with us, and that was on us for making an equally short sighted error in extendibg when we did, for as long as we did, but Lyon was high caliber enough for us to err in trying to stave off competition.

never got the "stave off competition"

when was the last time a coach was poached from one club to the other? oh wait it was Ross over 10 years ago now.

Signing coaches up to long term contracts doesn't make much sense to me.